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  • The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and age-gates into Meta’s social media products and requires all users—minors and adults—to undergo a rights-threatening age estimation process
  • The Settlement places severe restrictions on Teens that can only be modified by the Teens’ parents and only then in exchange for giving their parents a ton of information about their online community and usage;
  • The Settlement seems to empower the attorneys general to enforce Meta’s content restriction on “age inappropriate content,” categories that Meta itself has had trouble administering without excluding information about sexuality, sexual and reproductive healthcare, and abortion medication;
  • The Settlement actually requires Meta to collect, analyze, and retain more information about its Teen users—when the pressure should have been on Meta to diminish its surveillance capitalism.
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[-] hyperion626@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I'm not a fan of sites collecting data, but Social media is a plague on society and I don't personally think people should be using it at all. Certainly not children. It's far worse than cigarettes IMO.

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

For those estimated to be over-18, the Settlement guarantees no direct benefit to you: no privacy protections, no greater user controls for your own accounts, no dent in Meta’s surveillance capitalism.

This is a big one and of course governments are ignoring it. Because violating privacy is the point of these age gates.

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